News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE donates radio and television equipment to the Media Academy in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe handed over technical equipment as a donation to the Media Academy of Tajikistan’s State Television and Radio Committee. The handover ceremony took place in the premises of the Media Academy in Dushanbe on 15 September 2018...
OSCE, UNODC and EAG conduct train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for Kazakh government officials
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
A two-day train-the-trainer course for Kazakh government officials on countering terrorist financing was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in partnership with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML) and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (EAG), from 14 to 15 September 2018, at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna...
OSCE/ODIHR partners with pro-democracy bodies in release of proposed global agenda on improving democratic institutions
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) teamed up with other organizations working in the area of promoting democracy today in publishing an agenda to focus attention on the constructive and concrete steps that different actors can take to respond to populism by strengthening democracy.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro donates forensic equipment to country’s Police
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro donated a forensic workstation set and two polygraphs, €52.000 worth, to the Montenegrin Police Directorate within the Interior Ministry on 14 September 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Ukraine, discusses minority issues in Kyiv and assesses inter-ethnic relations in Kherson region
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Lamberto Zannier, visited Ukraine from 11 to 14 September 2018, as a follow-up to his previous visits to Kyiv in December 2017 and the Zakarpattia region in February 2018. During the meetings with the Government and the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv...
Greater efforts to protect Roma from violence and punish perpetrators key to ensuring Roma security and inclusion, say participants at Warsaw event
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The very limited progress in implementing government strategies and policies for Roma inclusion remains a major obstacle to their inclusion, participants said at an event in Warsaw on 14 September 2018. The lack of progress is coupled with negative public and political discourse, persistent discrimination and growing manifestations of intolerance and racially motivated violence against Roma and Sinti in the OSCE area.
